Education (for extra credits)

Education

 Education is a social institution that sociologists are very interested in studying. This includes teaching formal knowledge such as reading, writing, and speaking, as well as teaching other things such as morals, values, and ethics. Education makes young people for adjusting to society and is a form of socialization. Sociologists want to know how this form of socialization affects and is affected by other social structures, experiences, and outcomes.

 

Sociology of education is a field that focuses on two separate levels of analysis. At a macro-level, sociologists work to identify how various social forces, such as entertainments, culture, politics, etc, creates variation in schools. In other words, what effects do other social institutions have on the educational system? At a micro-level, sociologists look to identify how variation in school practices lead to differences in individual-level student outcomes. That is, when schools have different teaching methods or have different practices, how does that affect the individual students and what are the individual outcomes? I